A 24-year-old Crewe girl with a rare stomach illness is to trial a pioneering treatment.

Becki Newton, of Wistaston, was diagnosed with Gastroparesis, a chronic illness where food remains in the stomach for longer than normal, nearly six years ago and has been repeatedly told by doctors there is not an available cure.

She hopes to rid herself of the debilitating condition after her consultant at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust broke the news on Thursday that an Australian professor recently had a major breakthrough in research.

Becki will take three types of medication per day, she said: “They’re tablets which people can access already so it’s not as if they have to wait for a new drug to be made. I haven’t been told how many people will be trialing this new treatment I’ve just been told I’m one of the first.

“It doesn’t really seem real because in December it will be six years that I’ve had it and every time I’ve gone back to the consultant it’s always been ‘there is no cure at the minute so we are just going to have to treat the symptoms that you’ve got’.”

Gastroparesis leaves those affected struggling with nausea, vomiting, pain, weight loss or gain, and in extreme cases, unable to eat.

News of the ground-breaking research, which is yet to be published, comes a year after Becki swam the width of the English Channel for charity, the only type of exercise she is able to participate in, raising nearly £2,000 for Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge to help find a cure.

She also wanted to raise awareness of the illness after she claims one of the major problems is it can be misdiagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) or gluten intolerant among others.

Becki, who works at PA4You on Nantwich Road, says it took doctors nearly four years to verify her condition.

She lost over three-stone in just two months after been put on daily sickness tablets and heartburn pills but she is now better equipped to deal with her symptoms.

“Once you’ve accepted it then you can deal with it. This kind of illness you are not born with, you had your life before the illness so you know how you used to live before,” she added.

“I was told by doctors that it was in my head because all the scans and tests were coming back clear, but you know you’re not well but it’s hard to detect.”

She has booked to go away on a week’s holiday to Orlando next summer with her family and boyfriend Ash, which will be her first trip away since she was diagnosed in 2010.